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June 2016

June 19, 2016

Anagrams can be traced back to the time of Moses, as "Themuru" or changing, which was to find the hidden and mystical meaning in names. Anagrams used for titles afford scope for some types of wit. Examples: Shakespeare's Hamlet is an anagram for the Danish Prince Amleth. "Adolf Hitler" should have been a clue what the future held: FILTH ORDEAL, DO REAL FILTH, TRIAD OF HELL etc.

So let US be forewarned about Donald Trump. His anagram is a real stinker: DAMN TURD POL. What do you expect from someone who only talks shit?

Eugen Robinson (Washington Post):

Trump lies the way other people breathe. We're used to politicians who stretch the truth, who waffle or dissemble, who emphasize some facts while omitting others. But I can't think of any other political figure who so brazenly tells lie after lie, spraying audiences with such a fusillade of untruths that it is almost impossible to keep track. Perhaps he hopes the media and the nation will become numb to his constant lying. We must not.

Trump lies when citing specifics. He claimed that a “tremendous flow of Syrian refugees” has been entering the country; the total between 2012 and 2015 was around 2,000, barely a trickle. He claimed that “we have no idea” who those refugees are; they undergo up to two years of careful vetting before being admitted.

Trump lies when speaking in generalities. He claimed that President Obama “has damaged our security by restraining our intelligence gathering and failing to support law enforcement.” Obama actually expanded domestic intelligence operations and only dialed them back because of bipartisan pressure following the Edward Snowden revelations.

Trump lies by sweeping calumny. “For some reason, the Muslim community does not report people like this,” he said of Omar Mateen, the shooter in the Orlando massacre. But according to law enforcement officials, including FBI Director James Comey, numerous potential plots have been foiled precisely because concerned Muslims reported seeing signs of self-radicalization.

Trump lies by smarmy insinuation. “We're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he's got something else in mind,” he said of Obama. “There's something going on — it's inconceivable. There's something going on.” He also said of Obama: “He doesn't get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands. It's one or the other, and either one is unacceptable.”

You read that right. The presumptive Republican nominee implies that the president of the United States is somehow disloyal. There is no other way to read “he gets it better than anybody understands.”

Political discourse can be civil or rowdy, gracious or mean. But to have any meaning, it has to be grounded in fact. Trump presents a novel challenge for both the media and the voting public. There is no playbook for evaluating a candidate who so constantly says things that objectively are not true.

How are we in the media supposed to cover such a man? The traditional approach, which seeks fairness through non-judgmental balance, seems inadequate. It does not seem fair to write “Trump claimed the sky is maroon while Clinton claimed it is blue” without noting that the sky is, in fact, blue. It does not seem fair to even present this as a “question” worthy of debate, as if honest people could disagree. One assertion is objectively false and one objectively true.

Trump's lies also present a challenge for voters. The normal assumption is that politicians will bend the truth to fit their ideology — not that they will invent fake “truth” out of whole cloth. Trump is not just an unorthodox candidate. He is an inveterate liar — maybe pathological, maybe purposeful. He doesn't distort facts, he makes them up.

Trump has a right to his anger, his xenophobia and his bigotry. He also has a right to lie — but we all have a duty to call him on it. His Shit stinks, no matter how RICH he is.

June 15, 2016

Good morning, Mr. Trump. The Republican Party has systematically damaged the military-readiness and the economic foundations of this once-great country. Your mission, if you accept it, is to destroy the capacity of the top leaders in the Republican Party, making it a Mission Impossible ever to occupy the White House again. And, as always if you are caught, Don, Secretary Clinton will disavow you and your team. Good luck, Don.

There you have it, a real Mission Impossible. So far, Don's team has systematically destroyed the Bush Crime family and Marco Rubio from ever occupying the White House. Next up: Paul Ryan.

Ryan's budget plan represents the most serious threat to US in offering enormous tax cuts for the wealthy; eliminates taxation of capital gains, dividends and interest; and abolishes the corporate income and estate tax. Some versions partially privatize Social Security; privatize Medicare; fund Medicaid through block grants to the states; and eliminate the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance. Other versions decimate Medicaid and eliminate Obamacare without anything to take its place. The Ryan plan tightens eligibility for Pell grants, drastically reducing the potential beneficiaries while shrinking the amounts available. Ironically, Ryan champions the for-profit colleges which, in many cases, are an expensive consumer fraud paid for by looting Pell grants.

His "plan" slashes spending on transportation, education, housing, health-related research, veterans’ assistance, homeland security, the justice system and environmental protection. It cuts down on food stamps, unemployment insurance and, of course, entitlement programs which can be reformed in far less draconian ways. And virtually all the tax cuts go to the top 1 percent.

Playing the fool on his joker card, Ryan was forced to accept publicly Donald Trump as his party's savior. This was in spite of Trump having the audacity to show the GOP's cards. He vocalized the tacit racism of all too many Republican officeholders and made it overt — targeting Muslims, Hispanics and, with barely less subtlety, blacks. He said that free trade agreements betrayed American workers. He stood up against cuts in Social Security and Medicare. He questioned tax cuts for the rich. He has pretty well trashed their free-trade agenda: to the distress of Chamber of Commerce types. In the process, he has turned the GOP’s attack on identity politics into a defense of embattled white folks against the supposed depredations of a multiracial society.

Ryan had refrained from endorsing Trump IN HIS FUTILE effort to preserve his own political life and, quite likely, running for president. But Ryan could not stay out of harm's way. To pave the way for an endorsement, Ryan pretended to believe that Trump was buying into his serious ideas, facilitating their passage should Trump become president. But in the primaries Trump had kicked his agenda to the curb, and now was treating Ryan to condescension and veiled threats. And in Ryan’s own caucus, nervous Republicans were pushing him to back their presumptive nominee.

I'm with RACIST: Confronted with Trump's Muslim Hysteria, Ryan was compelled to denounce Trump’s virulence as “the textbook definition of a racist comment.” And yet he reaffirmed his support for Trump — because, after all, he would be better than Hillary Clinton. But then Trump reacted to the slaughter perpetrated by a demented ISIS sympathizer at a gay nightclub in Orlando with the odious demagoguery which is his trademark, doubling down on his call for a ban on all Muslims from abroad, asserting that American Muslims at large “know what’s going on” regarding terrorism, and congratulating himself on his supposed prescience in identifying these threats. He then topped this dangerous and irresponsible scapegoating — so damaging to our national security and national fabric — by implying that President Obama was complicit in, or at least tolerant of, terrorist violence against Americans. With every repugnant utterance from Trump, Paul Ryan's chances for president were toast.

America Shrugged: Ryan is a politician caught between his rejected Ayn Rand aetheist-bullshit ideology and the racist pseudo-populism of the Great Exaggerator who emerged from the political and moral void he and his party helped create. Trump, of course, will lose. But he will leave behind a Republican Titanic, headed for an electoral iceberg which will shatter the party for years to come and the party’s would-be savior, President Paul Ryan.

Well done, Agent Trump.

As that other Mission Impossible Double Agent George W. Bush proclaimed:

June 14, 2016

Hillary Clinton has made her bones trying to impress American voters that she is tough on national security. Her email scandal however has damaged national security - no matter what Barack Obama says. One of the most serious potential breaches of national security identified so far by the intelligence community inside Hillary's private emails involves the relaying of classified information concerning the movement of North Korean nuclear assets, which was obtained from spy satellites.

Multiple intelligence sources who spoke to The Washington Times, solely on the condition of anonymity, said concerns about the movement of the North Korean information through Mrs. Clinton’s unsecured server are twofold.

First, spy satellite information is frequently classified at the top-secret level and handled within a special compartment called Talent-Keyhole. This means it is one of the most sensitive forms of intelligence gathered by the U.S.

These weren’t just ordinary secrets found in Clinton’s private server, but some of the most classified material the U.S. government has.

Most seriously, the Inspector General assessed that Clinton’s emails included information that was highly classified—yet mislabeled as unclassified. Worse, the information in question should have been classified up to the level of “TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN,” according to the Inspector General’s report.

• TOP SECRET, as the name implies, is the highest official classification level in the U.S. government, defined as information whose unauthorized release “could cause exceptionally grave damage to national security or foreign relations.”

• TK refers to Talent Keyhole, which is an IC caveat indicating that the classified material was obtained via satellite.

• NOFORN, as the name implies, means that the materials can only be shown to Americans, not to foreigners.

Information at the “TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN” level is considered exceptionally highly classified and must be handled with great care under penalty of serious consequences for mishandling. Every person who is cleared and “read on” for access to such information signs reams of paperwork and receives detailed training about how it is to be handled, no exceptions—and what the consequences will be if the rules are not followed.

Other people are in jail for lesser violations of national security. If the DOJ can't charge Hillary for these serious national security violations, it can forget about charging anyone else. WELCOME HOME, EDWARD SNOWDEN!!!!!

North Korea's nuclear program is the most dangerous threat to our national security, other than the NRA which is killing US with its pro-assault weapons bribes.

Hillary Clinton's poor judgment is a threat to our national security. In Hillary - and OBAMA - World not everyone is treated equally. The CREATOR would beg to differ. The NK REACTOR security violation could be her judgment day. Make no bones about it, the KEYHOLE security violation about North Korea's nuclear arms program will reach critical mass and either burn Hillary or US.

Coming to a theater near you: "CRITICAL MASS"

Logline: Two FBI agents race the clock to find evidence of national security violations that could affect the race for president.

June 12, 2016

MADMAN Omar Mateen of Port Saint Luice, Florida, born to Afghan immigrant parents, killed over fifty people with an assault rifle, the Black Mamba , at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The attack is the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, with more than 100 people shot. His father said MADMAT was mad at the sight of men kissing. His ex-wife said MADMAT was abusive. Their marriage lasted four months. She said he was MAD at gays, blacks, EVERYONE. MADMAT even scouted out Disney Springs several times as a possible location to kill people. MADMAT was investigated by the FBI, and yet he was able to buy his assault weapon.

We've seen this movie before in America. It never gets old. In fact, many find this so entertaining and PROFITABLE. CNN and the rest of the media vultures live for this shit. Disney, which could have been a target, should build a theme park for mass murder. It would make a real killing.

MAD MAX was an Australian post-apocalyptic movie. They don’t shoot mass-killer movies in Australia like this anymore. Those fools got rid of assault rifles. Of course, the NRA doesn't control its elected officials.

This sign should be posted at every port-of-entry to warn visitors to this Mad MAD country:

“BE ADVISED: YOU ARE ENTERING A COUNTRY THAT IS AWASH IN ASSAULT RIFLES AND MENTALLY DISTURBED PEOPLE. THE US GOVERNMENT CANNOT PROTECT YOU. STAY AWAY FROM ENCLOSED CROWDED PLACES THAT ARE PERFECT KILL-ZONES. GOOD LUCK, AND GOOD NIGHT.

June 11, 2016

It’s New York vs New York this year as Hillarious “Destiny” Clinton battles Donald “the Exaggerator” Trump. Was the New York Belmont horse race a harbinger of things to come?

Creator closed with a rush and caught Destin at the wire, who was foolishly chasing Gettysburg most of the race, to win the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on Saturday, with Preakness winner Exaggerator finishing 11th, well back in the field. The jockey for Exaggerator said his horse tripped on his tongue. Just after Creator, the son of the great white horse Tapit. crossed the wire, rains began to fall over the Belmont oval, drenching the connections in the winner's circle and leaving a rainbow over the emotional scene.

Creator was named by WINSTAR CEO Elliott Walden, a very religious man. “We liked this horse an awful lot as a 2-year-old, and I don't know, God might have given me a sign,” said Walden. “We are a Christian farm, and the Troutts are Christians, and faith is very important to them, and their relationship with Christ is very important to them.”

Don’t give up hope, America. The race ain't over till it's over. Let US hope for some divine intervention to save US from these two losers.

June 09, 2016

If Hillarious Clinton is to win the White House, she would be wise to follow the lead of "Seinfeld" George Costanza and do "The Opposite."

Clinton has made her foreign policy experience a centerpiece of her campaign. Under scrutiny, however, Clinton’s acumen has been consistently called into question — from her vote, as a U.S. senator, for the Iraq War (which led to the collapse of that country into near failed-state status) to her relentless push to intervene in Libya (which led to the collapse of that country into near failed-state status); not to mention her handling of the Russian “reset,” the so-called pivot to Asia, and the Arab Spring, among other issues.

With this record, what's the risk, Hillarious?

Costanza came up with his "opposite" strategy as every decision he's ever made has been wrong, he tried to do the opposite. As Jerry Seinfeld sums it up, "If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right."

The brilliance of this is that despite the absurdity of the premise, it makes perfect sense. Doing the opposite, in George's case, meant being honest, treating people like people, speaking openly, confronting social situations directly, and having patience with others. George's life improved—the opposite of George is a good person.

June 08, 2016

My aunt is a big Donald Trump fan. She admires him because he's rich. Most of the people who would vote for Trump don't care if he's a bigot. They don't care what his insane policy positions are. They only care that he's rich. But what if he's not the billionaire he claims he is? What if Trump's income — or at least, his adjusted gross income for federal tax purposes — might be less than $500,000 a year?

Item: The property-tax bill for Trump's penthouse at Trump Tower is getting a school tax rebate.

Why does that matter, you ask? The rebate is supposed to be available only to people who make less than $500,000 a year. Trump's latest tax bill came out, and, as again first reported by Crain's, it still shows him receiving the rebate, three months after the story first became public. The city's Department of Finance (DOF) "has a process in place for reviewing eligibility that it must follow," said Freddi Goldstein, a spokeswoman for the mayor, on Monday. "DOF has been reviewing Mr. Trump's exemption status for final determination."

As Crain's reported in March, the city and state tax departments claim that they interface with each other to ensure that property-tax bills — which are prepared by the city — are checked against income data (which the state gets on income-tax returns) to ensure that school tax rebates go to only those who qualify for them.

So what if the Donald isn't a billionaire? He could be a better president than rich bitch Hillary. He knows how the rest of us get by. He's poor too.

June 03, 2016

Wow, that didn't last long. Not so long ago House Speaker Paul Ryan denounced evil Donald Trump and insisted “all of us as leaders can hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity and decency” and that “we shouldn’t accept ugliness as the norm.” Ryan, of course, was referring to Trump's campaign which was based on lies, bigotry, insults, and fearmongering.

Ryan made his deal with the devil and sold his soul after conversations with Trump reassured him he will help turn House GOP ideas into law. Really. How did that work out for Neville Chamberlain?

Ryan has endorsed Trump, whose “final solutions” include banning Muslims from entering the country, who casts aspersions on judges because of their ethnicity, who mocks people with disabilities, who lies repeatedly, who would muzzle the free press.

Ryan thinks he can control Trump, that he can play him like all the other suckers who have fallen for his Three-card Monte game. But Trump is playing a different game; he's the one holding all the cards. Ryan may have sold his principles for the Vice President ticket, but he will soon find out he's the Joker in the deck. And the first card to go is always the Joker.